"Hey, Fatboy!"

Empire Online, via Time Out, snagged some quotes from Nicolas Cage as he made the rounds promoting his new release, the World War II romance Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Cage dropped some tidbits about his new project Adaptation, which Spike Jonze is directing and Charlie Kaufman has scripted. The film is loosely based on Susan Orlean's bestseller The Orchid Thief but focuses more on Kaufman's own problems adapting it as a screenplay.

In Adaptation, Cage has dual lead roles as screenwriter-twin brothers Charlie and Donald Kaufman. Thing is, Donald is a fictional character and Charlie Kaufman won't look anything in the film like he does in real life. Cage describes the "two overweight, sexually frustrated twin brothers" as "pretty interesting." So how will Cage plump up for the film? Don't expect him to engage in any risky De Niro-esque weight gains. Instead, Cage will don a prosthetic fat suit, a la The Nutty Professor. "I didn't think it would be healthy to destroy myself physically," Cage confesses.

 Next time STAX gains weight he's gonna tell people it's for a movie he's in.